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John Psaropoulos

Ukraine mounts acts of sabotage in Siberia to staunch Russian artillery

Ukrainian servicemen demonstrate a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun near Kyiv, Ukraine, on November 30, 2023 [Oleg Petrasyuk/EPA-EFE]

The past week of Russia’s war in Ukraine was remarkable, chiefly for something that happened thousands of kilometres to the east of a hardened battlefront.

In an apparent sabotage operation of breathtaking audacity, Ukrainian operatives blew up two freight trains in east Siberia travelling on a track believed to be used to shuttle North Korean-made ordnance to the Russian front lines in Ukraine.

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